When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.
Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor.
